Pregnant Mila Kunis Craves Pickles, Won't Get an Epidural

Mila Kunis confirmed her pregnancy on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, revealing that she is expecting her first child with Ashton Kutcher. ("I managed to hide it for a very long time," she said, adding that the baby is due sometime this year.) Although, yes, we sort of already knew about it, it was cool to hear her officially confirm it and share some of the details, like her food cravings and her feelings on epidurals:

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Kunis said that she has been craving pickles and sauerkraut during her pregnancy, and that Kutcher has kept up with her demands. "He assumed that I was gonna have goofy cravings, so he stocked our secondary fridge with weird food," she explained. "Just like pickles and sauerkraut, or like anchovies and ice creams. Just in case at one point during this pregnancy I'd be like, 'I really want something.'"

"And it happened last week, I was like, 'Oh my God, I need a pickle'. Like, it was just the weirdest thing. I needed this pickle and he was like, 'Hold on a second,' and disappeared in the backyard and came back with the most amazing dill pickle of all time."

"Are you going to do it at home?" DeGeneres also asked about the birth. Kunis replied, "We thought about it. We watched a couple of documentaries, and we looked into like the midwife aspect of it and things, and spoke to my OB/GYN, and realized that the hospital that I'm going to be laboring in does a midwife, you know, doula type of thing, and so I'm gonna do it as all-natural as I possibly can, unless that there's an emergency or something that goes wrong."

And she doesn't want an epidural, either. "I'm crazy. I mean, I did this to myself—I might as well do it right," she said. "I wanted this. It's like, no one made me do this."

"I know," DeGeneres said, "but you didn't do it to yourself. I know that much. I may not know a lot, but I know that much."

"I did have a little help," Kunis said, laughing. "Just a little bit. I mean..."